EP-247 Openai’s $40b Surge 🚀, Amazon’s Nova Act in Alexa+ 🤖, Isomorphic Labs’ Ai Pharma Breakthrough 💊

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for tuesday, april 1st. get ready for exciting developments across the tech world:

• openai's groundbreaking funding: raises $40 billion in a historic private round, boosting its valuation to $300 billion. funds aim to advance ai research and support its massive chatgpt user base, including $18 billion for the stargate infrastructure project.
• amazon's nova act: introduces a general-purpose ai agent developed by amazon's agi lab, designed to control web browsers autonomously. check out the toolkit available at nova.amazon.com.
• alphabet's isomorphic labs' milestone: secures $600 million in its first external funding round to accelerate its ai-driven drug discovery platform, aiming to push new drugs into clinical trials.
• openai's upcoming "open" ai language model: plans to release a new, open-source ai language model, seeking feedback from developers and researchers to influence its design.
• construct capital's new fund: launches a $300 million fund targeting technological advancements in defense and manufacturing amidst rising geopolitical tensions.

that's it for today's briefing. we'll see you back here tomorrow.